Stephen Wolfram hosts a live and unscripted Ask Me Anything about the history of science and technology for all ages.

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Outline of Q&A:
0:00 Stream starting
2:33 Stephen begins the Q&A
3:33 Begin discussing the history of LISP
8:11​ Do you know Noam chomsky personally?
45:20 How is emacs related to lisp?
48:05 Hi Dr. Wolfram, do you know Linus Torvalds?
48:45 In a recent Lex Fridman Podcast (#153) Dmitry Korkin talked about how Joshua Lederberg, in the 60s, used advanced ideas in AI to help NASA identify molecules which might be related to alien life.
49:40 Oh wow yeah and NASA became interested in sanskrit as a programming language
49:51 ​What are the main contributions of Marvin Minsky to AI field?
1:08:09 Juan Arturo Silva Ordaz: ​I was thaught Scheme as an undergraduate. Never used it again, I understand it is related to LISP
1:09:11​ Why did Ludwig Boltzmann commit suicide?
1:30:10 Dear Stephen, what's your take\opinion on Visual Programming Languages? e.g. node based, etc. in my opinion some pictures are better than words for transfering the meaning
1:21:47 Fact check: Boltzmann tombstone says: S = k log W
1:22:45 Here's a difficult question. If you had to only choose one countries mathematics that you were allowed to use which would it be. England, France or Germany?
1:28:15 ​Russian Mathematics is awesome too I should have thrown that in there
1:30:10 Did you interact with James Watson or Francis Crick?
1:32:48 Fact check: Euler's book was titled "Letters to a German Princess"
1:33:02 Do you apply the Monte Carlo simulation in any of your work?
1:33:49 and 1:42:50 Did you ever meet Konrad Zuze or study his work?
1:34:01 ​I ran into Aaron Klug and Max Perutz. Max Perutz was lovely. Aaron Klug just told me "CLEANER, GET OUT!" I used to clean their offices when I was at school.
1:53:22 Meet any Rocket scientists? Von Braun?

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